Exemplars of Curriculum Theory

Exemplars of Curriculum Theory
Author: Arthur K. Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317927311

This book crosses the divide between theoreticians and practitioners by demonstrating how curriculum theories and models are applied in classrooms today. It ties together broad educational theories such as progressivism, essentialism, perennialism, etc.; curriculum models, characterized as learner-centered, society-centered or knowledge-centered; and exemplars of curriculum theories and models, such as Reggio Emilia, Core Knowledge, the International Baccalaureate, etc.

Exemplars of Curriculum Theory

Exemplars of Curriculum Theory
Author: Arthur K. Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 131792732X

This book crosses the divide between theoreticians and practitioners by demonstrating how curriculum theories and models are applied in classrooms today. It ties together broad educational theories such as progressivism, essentialism, perennialism, etc.; curriculum models, characterized as learner-centered, society-centered or knowledge-centered; and exemplars of curriculum theories and models, such as Reggio Emilia, Core Knowledge, the International Baccalaureate, etc.

Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies

Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies
Author: Watson, Sandy White
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2021-12-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799888509

The field of curriculum inquiry has grown rapidly over the last four decades resulting in many new forms of curriculum inquiry to be used as tools to answer unique curriculum-related research questions. There are few texts available that include concise descriptions and elements of curriculum inquiry methodologies and directed at enabling researchers to wisely choose a form of curriculum inquiry most appropriate for their study. Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies presents chapters that are each devoted to a particular form of inquiry, with a conceptual analysis of the methodology, its purpose(s), its utilization, structure, and organization, all written by scholars with firsthand experience with the form of inquiry. These experts also take the liberty of citing examples of published studies that have utilized the methodology, share the types of relevant data collection instruments and forms of data produced, and also share research questions that can be answered via their form of inquiry. Covering topics such as quantitative methods of inquiry, glocalization, and educational criticism, this is an essential text for curriculum designers, doctoral students, doctoral researchers, university faculty, professors, researchers, and academicians.

Curriculum Theory

Curriculum Theory
Author: Michael Schiro
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 141298890X

The Second Edition of Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns by Michael Stephen Schiro presents a clear, unbiased, and rigorous description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century. The author analyzes four educational visions—Scholar Academic, Social Efficiency, Learner Centered, and Social Reconstruction—to enable readers to reflect on their own educational beliefs and more productively interact with educators who might hold different beliefs.

The Syllabus As Curriculum

The Syllabus As Curriculum
Author: Samuel D. Rocha
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780429027901

Can the syllabus constitute the curriculum? In this volume, Rocha explores curriculum theory through the lens of the syllabus. By critiquing curriculum studies and the entire field of education, overrun by the social sciences, Rocha provides an integrated vision of philosophy of education and curriculum theory, rooted in the humanities. Through an original reconceptualization, this text draws from a broad range of sources - ranging from Classical Antiquity to the present - offering a rich context for understanding curriculum as a philosophically salient concept, contained within the syllabus. The Syllabus as Curriculum features actual syllabi created and taught by the author in undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of British Columbia, Canada. These curated syllabi work as exemplars and media, supported by pedagogical commentary and context. Inspired by Augustine's Confessions, each part of the book culminates in a metaphorical "garden," which serves as a meditation on the syllabus in three senses: correspondence, essay, and outline. An original, powerful, and corrective contribution to the literature on curriculum studies, this work invites teachers and scholars from across the foundations of education, especially philosophy of education, art education, and those invested in curriculum theory, to see their contribution in more direct and integral ways.

Curriculum Spaces

Curriculum Spaces
Author: Lisa J. Cary
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820481289

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Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation

Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation
Author: Peter Mickan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2012-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1847698328

This book applies social theory to curriculum design and sets out a program for language curriculum renewal for the 21st century. It includes many examples of text-based curricula and describes a plan for curriculum renewal based on texts as the unit of analysis for planning, for teaching and for assessment. Underpinned by Halliday’s semiotic theory of language, the book combines the theory of language as a resource for meaning-making with learning language as learning to mean. The curriculum design constructs curriculum around social practices and their texts rather than presenting language as grammatical and lexical objects. This work will provide teachers, teacher educators and curriculum planners with a curriculum model for teaching children and adults in different contexts from preschool to adult education as well as serving as a practical guide for students.

Critical Curriculum Studies

Critical Curriculum Studies
Author: Wayne Au
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2012-03-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136655336

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012! Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students’ understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social, educational, and economic relations. Making use of the work of important scholars such as Freire, Vygotsky, Hartsock, Harding, and others, Critical Curriculum Studies, argues that we must understand the relationship between the curriculum and the types of consciousness we carry out into the world.

Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum

Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum
Author: Susan M. Drake
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452218803

In this completely revised and updated edition of Susan Drake's classic text on integrated curriculum, the author provides a new approach to standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment.